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As talk show host, non-fiction author and novelist, weekly oped-columnist, award-winning television writer and filmmaker, Steve Young just may be one of America's busiest and most versatile talents.

Icons from a myriad of fields stepped forward to share their remarkable stories of success built from adversity in Steve's inspiring book, "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press). Published internationally, "Great Failures..." and has become required reading in the Wharton School of Business Masters Program and made Steve a highly requested speaker on the college and corporate circuit.

His "All The News That's Fit To Spoof " column appeared every Sunday for years on the L.A. Daily News Oped Page. Refusing to be limited by any medium or particular political side of the aisle, as political editor for National Lampoon Steve created the mega-popular, right-sided web site, MoveOnPlease.org and was one of the original hosts at L.A.'s Home of Progressive Talk, KTLK AM1150.

An award-winning prime time television writer, Young's work has been seen on such television programs as ABC’s "Boy Meets World," CBS’s "Cybill," HBO Family’s "Crashbox," Disney’s "The Smart Guy," and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

With his wacky children’s novel, "Winchell Mink...The Misadventure Begins" (Harper-Collins) on the shelves and the award-winning "15 Minutes" (Harper-Collins) he has become a hot bet with kids, parents and schools. Steve has appeared all over national TV - from the Today Show to Bill O'Reilly - and radio pitching his own brand of satirical punditry with is political mayhem appearing on the pages of national newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times, as well as on his own blog at www.steveyoungonpolitics.com.

To top it off, he took Hollywood power brokers to task with his hit cult film, "My Dinner With Ovitz." Not necessarily terribly focused, Steve has even written standup material of the inimitable Libertarian Presidential nominee, Bob Barr.

With boundless energy and enthusiasm, we can expect the name of America’s champion of failure to appear on an ever-growing number books lining the shelves of bookstores nationwide.*

*And hopefully, one day, we can stop him writing his name on all those books.

Blog Entries by Steve Young

Media Run Amok: What if Glenn Beck, CNN and the New York Post Reported on History?

(5) Comments | Posted April 26, 2013 | 11:30 AM

"An arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing has been made." (before any arrest)
- CNN, Boston Globe, Fox News, Associated Press, et al.

"Initial reports, so often are wrong" (still, before any arrest)
- CNN's Anderson Cooper

Yes, it was an explosive week for news,...

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Dollars More Important Than Kids: Accidental Death, Suicide, Tragedies Highlight Safety Net Cuts

(3) Comments | Posted February 8, 2013 | 2:08 PM

The adults rolled the dice and the kids lost.

Bucks County, home to such literary giants as James Michener and Pearl Buck, is also home to a school district that is crafting an embarrassing non-fiction story of financial irresponsibility and worse, child neglect.

Neshaminy School District of Langhorne, PA,...

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2012... Mistakes? We Made A Few... Thousand

(0) Comments | Posted January 7, 2013 | 12:18 PM

In today's Philadelphia Inquirer:

There are kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -- Will Rogers

Rogers must have foreseen 2012 when he explained...

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The Death Knell of Political Spin

(1) Comments | Posted November 2, 2012 | 7:02 PM

"I think it can now be said without equivocation -- without equivocation -- that this man [President Obama] hates this country." -- Rush Limbaugh

"As I said before, I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has not paid taxes for ten years." --

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Truthiness: Politics Favorite Bloodsport

(3) Comments | Posted August 16, 2012 | 6:30 PM

"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." -- John Adams

OMG! John Adams, Founding Father and second president of the United States, actually said the world would be better without religion? Yes, he did.

But did he mean it? In context,...

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Glamor, Guts and Gams: Why Mika Should Never Take a Vacation

(4) Comments | Posted August 3, 2012 | 3:05 PM

This past week Morning Joe co-host Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski went on holiday leaving a bunch of young and old farts who spend most of the Starbucks-brewed MSNBC show chest-puffing their ardent notions. Her absence left me having to be content with commercial-break stills of a sinuous and stunning Mika...

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Help Stop the Suffering of Richard Lewis

(0) Comments | Posted July 26, 2012 | 11:52 AM

The inimitable Richard Lewis is a comedian... a hilarious one at that. But he's also a human being and today that human being is suffering from a horrible affliction that has long been kept in the shadows of denial. I'm talking about the agony of deceitculosis: standing by, doing nothing...

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Hollywood Exclaims: Stop Mistreating Deceptive Politicians! (VIDEO)

(0) Comments | Posted June 18, 2012 | 2:57 PM

The Supreme Court has already made it clear that corporations are people. It's time to acknowledge that political dishonesty has the same legitimacy as political truth.

What happened to freedom of speech?!

America used to be the country where a man (and since 1920, a woman) could speak freely...

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Satire: Campaign 2012's Secret Weapon

(3) Comments | Posted January 9, 2012 | 5:18 PM

Two political candidates walk into a bar. The first one is a liar. The second one is not. Which one would you vote for? Neither. The second one doesn't exist.
 
Elections are still over ten months away yet the 2012 campaign season is in full swing with...

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Trump Takes Credit for Bin Laden Death: "I've Never Been More Proud of Myself"

(0) Comments | Posted May 4, 2011 | 7:13 AM

On what he declared was the "greatest triumph" of his Presidential exploration campaign, Donald Trump declared that his efforts were vital to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

"Today I am even more proud of myself than I was last week," said a beaming Trump in front...

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Contradiction 2012

(4) Comments | Posted March 21, 2011 | 4:39 PM

"The place is so crowded, no one goes there any more." Yogi Berra

And so the 2012 Republican paradox some call a presidential primary race begins in earnest... facetiously.

From Newt blaming his infidelity on overzealous patriotism -- piggy-backed by Santorum's marijuana-use admission to defend Gingrich -- to...

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Glenn Beck Plans January 15th "Day of Service"

(0) Comments | Posted January 13, 2011 | 5:16 AM

Yesterday, Glenn Beck announced his plans for a "Day of Service" rally to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, January 15th.

"I think it's time that every American recommit to the ideals of the founding fathers with white people from all walks of life getting together...

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Philly Corruption...Bucks County Style

(0) Comments | Posted October 28, 2010 | 10:23 AM

Frank Farry is an incumbent candidate for Pennsylvania State House Representative in the 142nd District of Lower Bucks County. He is a life-long resident of the area, an attorney, chief of the local fire department and can be found Friday evenings at the local high school football game or hobnobbing...

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Demanding Compassion (This Morning's Philadelphia Inquirer)

(5) Comments | Posted October 4, 2010 | 7:30 AM

Doctors' compassion crisis
By Steve Young and William L. Scarlett,D.O., FACOS,FAACS

One Thursday in late 2007, Joy received a phone call from her surgeon and learned she had breast cancer. As you might expect, she was in shock and despair.

"What should I do?" she...

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Oh God (2010). Starring Glenn Beck

(9) Comments | Posted September 5, 2010 | 9:26 AM

"You give these answers to Reverend Big Mouth and you tell him that God says he's a phony...Personally tell him to shut up." God (George Burns) telling Jerry (John Denver) what to say to a particular evangelical preacher (Oh, God, 1977)

"I have a big fat mouth sometimes...

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The Evidence Is in. Glenn Beck and Michael Scott...Same Person

(15) Comments | Posted August 10, 2010 | 8:08 AM

Why Don't We Ever See Glenn Beck and Michael Scott in the Same Place?
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I was listening to Glenn Beck pontificate on his radio show...

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Steele Summoned to Limbaugh (Extremely) White House

(1) Comments | Posted July 3, 2010 | 8:21 AM

Republican Party Chairman, Michael Steele was being "ordered to appear" at Rush Limbaugh's EIB (Excellence In Broadcasting) Florida compound to explain his comments made at a Connecticut fundraiser Thursday where he spoke at a Republican gathering who was expecting someone of consequence. "You don't engage in a land war in...

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Glenn Beck Takes Dim-witted Reasoning to Historic Level: Compares BP oil spill to a house fire.

(9) Comments | Posted May 29, 2010 | 8:18 AM

Offering his audience unambiguous evidence that his logic disconnects from even the most convoluted reasoning, Friday morning on his radio show, Glenn Beck likened the BP oil spill to a house fire.

"If a house burnt down, would we stop building houses?"

Sure we would, Glenn...

If the blaze...

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Rand Paul Suggests Law of Gravity Be Left to States

(4) Comments | Posted May 26, 2010 | 12:42 PM

In a recent interview with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, Senatorial candidate Rand Paul (R, Ky) expressed controversial views concerning a number of issues thought to be a matter of settled law. While his statements concerning civil rights received the most attention, his position on a heretofore unchallenged law seems to...

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Restoring Honor, The Glenn Beck Way

(26) Comments | Posted May 26, 2010 | 12:24 PM

"You have to be a dirt bag to be president." Glenn Beck on his radio show this week explaining why he would never tell children that they can grow up to be president.
If that doesn't warm the cockles of your patriotic hearts, I can just see the wide-eyed school...
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